Hello. Im ann druyan and the speaking to you from my home in ithaca, new york, and im the author of cosmos possible worlds, deeply truly honored to be participating in events for the library of congress. In the very first cosmos exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and stephen and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandria. The library of congress means so very much to me because of the democratic ideals of the worlds knowledge belonging to all of us. So its my great honor to be here, and im here to talk about cosmos which is book ive written but also the Television Series i have the pleasure of producing, writing, and directing with my collaborator. So why possible world . Why after 30 years . The first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public, a global public, its coordinates in space and in time. It was carl sagan was dream, one that i completely share, that how we find our way in the cosmos. The great story of the 40,000 generations of human beings who in one way or
This is an unusual set of times, and we need to sort of step back and add some realism, and not necessarily fall victim to what is on social media, what we are seeing in terms of twitter feeds, or the like. And just sort of put things in perspective. He was talking about the sheer number of those mailin ballots that we have to work through in states across the country, so yeah, it is going to take some time. No matter how badly want to result. What is to happen when we get a result . Who knows. We dont know when that will happen, so people just left to wait here on election day three. Live in San Francisco, wilson walker, kpix5. Stirr nectar kenny choi with the results that raised the question, how progressive is the california voter . Reporter well, that is the question tonight, liz. Who was the california voter today, based on the results that we are seeing some of these propositions . We take a closer look at some of the propositions that have been more talked about this election ye
Welcome to the emergence of aerial war virtual symposium, i am chris mackowski. Thank you so much for doing this online years event. I want to get one final shadow to our director, chris white, for his help behind the camera today. He is the cofounder, and he make sure todays happening for us virtually. Thank you chris. And also thank you to our symposium coco originators, kevin pollack and dan dan welch, whose hard work have me todays event possible. And also, thank you to our friends at cspan for sharing americans, American History a very important task in these days. Our final speak for today, is Paige Gibbons backus. Weve been talking a lot today about the war in the east, but we cant forget about the aftermath of battle as well. And one of the most compelling portions about Civil War History in a civil war story. Pages of public historian with a county manchuria, shes also a social media manager for emerging civil war, and shes here today to talk about the carnage in the medical f
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Author of fighting for hope. The National World War Ii Museum in new orleans hosted this discussion and provided the video. Greetings, everyone. I am senior director of programs at the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and it is my pleasure to welcome all of you to what promises to be a Great Program on the history of africanamericans in combat in the United States from world war i to world war ii with everything in between and in the immediate postworld war ii years, and i am joined by three of our nations preeminent scholars on this subject. Whohost is dr. John morrow, is franklin professor of history at the university of georgia and is coauthor with our second panelist, who is professor of harlemst nyu, of rattlers in the great war, which is a fantastic book about one of the great africanamerican units in the First World War were. Our third panelist is Robert Jefferson junior, associate professor of history at the , andrsity of new mexico the author of fighting for hope. I